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Tag Archives: Backups

An often overlooked aspect of managing network appliances like switches and routers is the necessity of configuration backups. Changes to these devices are usually infrequent, making backups easy to forget after finalizing a configuration. What’s more, network appliances often lack …

Backing up a Windows Server (WS) installation for disaster recovery has always been a thorn in my side. As critical as backups are in any infrastructure, I’m surprised there doesn’t exist a more robust and flexible built-in backup solution for …

I consider backups to be the “desert island” service of IT; if you’re going to provide one service to your users or business, it has to be backups. Data changes all the time, users make mistakes, and disasters happen. What …